A political report by Socialist Workers Party National Secretary Jack Barnes, above at podium, set the framework for three days of plenary sessions, classes and discussions at the SWP International Conference in Oberlin, Ohio, June 12-14. Barnes addressed the SWP’s…
July 3, 2000 Working people around the world need to loudly condemn the State of Texas moving to execute Gary Graham, who was railroaded to death row on a murder charge. Graham’s planned execution comes in the midst of heightened…
Minutes after hearing the White House had sent B-2 aircraft to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities June 21, Kevin Dwire, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, told a Militant Labor Forum there that the SWP backs Israel’s fight to…
HOOPESTON, Ill. — Since the beginning of June, some 65 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 1 at the Teasdale Latin Foods canning plant here have been on strike. Solidarity from fellow workers and unions in…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order that took effect June 9 banning residents of 12 countries from entering the United States and placing harsh visa restrictions on those from another seven, including Cuba, along with Venezuela, Burundi, Laos, Sierra…
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — After 62 days on strike, Teamsters drivers and helpers at the airline catering company Flying Food Group here at San Francisco International Airport returned to work with a significant pay raise and a year of…
MONTREAL — DHL Express Canada, an international package delivery company based in Germany, locked out its 2,100 workers across Canada June 8. Workers voted down the bosses’ contract offer by 97% in May. The central issues are winning wage increases…
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some 1,300 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers at University of California San Francisco-run Benioff Children’s Hospital went out on strike June 18 against bosses’ moves to bust their union. The NUHW represents clinic workers,…
After beating back a three-month, U.S. government-led effort to bury him in jail in El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was returned to the U.S. June 6. He was immediately thrown in jail in Nashville, Tennessee, held without bond, and allowed…
In the largest work stoppage since the 1979 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of the shah and ensuing bourgeois-clerical-led counterrevolution, thousands of truck drivers in Iran held an 11-day strike starting May 22 and ending June 2 — four…
